Is it normal to have been hit with a belt growing up?

Now days, anything that is not time out or gentle talking to is abuse. As long as the belt did not leave bruises or seriously hurt you, it is not abuse. I was spanked with a belt when I was a kid, and I am very grateful for it because there was no way in Hell I would respond to time out. Time out was fun for me, and had I not recieved a good ole fashion "whoopin'" I probably would have grown up as a problem child. There is nothing wrong with physically disiplining your child, and the belt is a good way to enforce authority. I work at a retail shop and I see kids screaming and throwing trantrums everyday and I always tell myself, "If that was me when I was a kid, that would be the end of it." Parents are too afraid to show authority to their kids these days, and that why so many of them or bratty and horrible.

I understand that some kids respond well to time out and they don't need to spanked, but that does not go for all kids as all kids are different. I think that it is normal to be hit with the belt, and you will find that most kids who grew up around your time endured the same punishment. It's just the dumb-ass crap today that tries to make everything seem abusive.

Ummm.... I say it's how you hit your child with the belt that determains weither or not it's abuse.

On the butt is ok.

But... If you just stand over your child and swing randomly, it is abuse.

Spanking your child is ok.

If you sit on your child and hit her/him in the face, that's abuse.

Lol. That is what i believe.

It is normal, I was done the same way as a child.

However, I do consider hitting a child with an object such as a belt to be a form of abuse because you ARE hitting the child with a weapon. The belt is being turned into a weapon when you turn your child into a target.

I have no issue with corporal punishment when executed responsibly. Children do not always understand reason but they understand a swat on the butt and when we are talking about a small, clueless human being in a world full of danger, pedophiles, cars with distracted drivers, power outlets and appliances and sharp objects, those swats on the butt may be the difference regarding whether or not that child remembers that trying to crawl over the baby gate to get to the swimming pool that they could drown in is wrong.

As a friend of mine once told me, there is whoopin' and there is beating and you can do one without doing the other.

My only problem with corporal punishment is when parents use it as a crutch rather than using it only when needed and not teaching their kids right from wrong, rather preferring to spank them instead. Or when they seriously lose their shit and start beating the kid.

My parents whooping my ass made me the man I am today. It's like training a dog. Dogs don't understand no. You gotta teach them.

Signed,
Knight Nigel Wellington XXI

Hahahaha "children know their rights"

My dad would spank me and my brothers but only with a open hand on the butt. The only exception was if we lied, then he would lay us out on a bed and whip the shit out of our asses. That taught me how important honesty is. And around 10 minutes after the whipping he'd come in the room and hug us, tell us how much he loves us, only wants the best for us, etc. And if it was a really bad spanking he'd give us a candy or something like that to calm us down. He was always completely composed, never angry. And all my brothers and myself are honest, productive, and have the balls to face the music. The most important thing is to be a real life example and have some common sense and your kids will make you proud and love you.

Not being racist, but white people have the tendency to overreact to things like spanking, so they pamper their kids and never discipline them and they turn out as little shits. Latino and African American mothers usually don't put up with shit like that which is why their kids have so much respect for them. I was never hit with a belt as a child but my Mom would swat my ass if I was being bad and she's put pepper on my tongue before when I was mouthing off.

Funny story, my Aunt is a bit of a ditz and she didn't realize that you're supposed to put a bit of pepper on your finger and then rub it on your kids tongue, she her little boy mouthed off at her and she takes the pepper shaker and just shakes it on his tongue and the top fell off and just filled his mouth hahaha

Yea it is normal to me. I plan on disciplining my children if necessary. I have noticed too many children acting spoiled because a verbal "no" is simply not enough.

But I turned out ok only after I changed my life around you see it gave me anger problems still till this day when someone raises there voice towards me I go off or pulls out a weapon on me I go off not everybody stays on the straight and narrow after stuff like that so there is a negative side to it to best belive

I was hit with a belt when I was younger and if it wasn't that I had to sit at the table for hours but that was by a family member when I use to have a baby sitter that was worse picture being hit with a metal spoon only after you laugh at your babysitter for busting a wooden spoon over your ass

btw u don't have to answer :p thanks for the inputtt

I think that slavery has taught our ancestors that the only way to ger obedience is to hit and they still do it. Some people say that children are traumatised etc but many of us grow up to be perfectly balanced adult. Sometimes with friends we would compared the punishments we got as kids and we would have some good laughs.